V.2 - SAM

Richard Marazano & Shang

A year has passed for the community of survivors. Ian and his team are still making dangerous forays to the ravaged surface in search of food and medicine, forced to go ever further each time. But one day, just as they’re about to be killed by one of the exterminator robots that constantly patrol the city, they’re saved by an old acquaintance not even Ian still hoped to see again: SAM, the strange robot that seems to want to protect the boy…

In the same series. 4 volumes

Convinced that they are the last survivors of the human race, Ian and
his friends have decided to go in search of the command centre
controlling the machines that hunt them so mercilessly. Their only
ray of hope is that SAM, their robot ally, is once again with them,
but even with his help, they are painfully aware that their attempt
to reach the place where everything ended for mankind is little more
than a suicide mission …

By the same authors

Milo leads a lonely childhood marked by the absence of his mother,
about whom he knows next to nothing. His father has gone to work in
the city, leaving him in the care of his three elderly aunts, who
give him his freedom to distract himself by the lake where he lives.
In this lake, Milo discovers a fish egg of unusual size, and when it
hatches, a magnificent golden fish is born. Milo is only half
surprised when strange creatures, including a toad man, become
interested in his secret discovery. He soon meets and frees a fiery
young girl named Valia, who was held prisoner by the toad man, and
the two are forced to flee, guided by the golden fish, to "the other
side" of the lake . . . the flip side underneath, one of many
parallel worlds that are connected through the lakes, rivers, and
oceans. In this parallel universe, an evil wizard wields power,
driven by blind vengeance, with the toad man does his bidding. Milo
finds himself the subject of fascination, fear, and excitement by the
elf-like population, who aren't sure what to do with him, until he
sets out on an adventure to protect them from the evil wizard. Along
the way, he finally encounters his mother, who turns out to be a
sorceress from this world, and the polar opposite power of the evil
wizard. He's the lost scion of a new generation and wizards, and he
never knew it (even though his three aunts and the golden fish did).
Milo is the key in this battle; if the wizard manages to capture him,
there will be no more opponents in the world on this side of the
lake, meaning he could extend his domination and carry it even
further, leading the conquest of the multiple parallel universes . .
. A beautifully illustrated, family-friendly, magical adventure in
the vein of Amulet and The Wizard of Oz. The first of three self-
contained story volumes.